1502 in literature

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This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1502.

Events

Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles published in Venice.

English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to Henry VII of England.

English Poet Laureate John Skelton is imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.

Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)

Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw (Celebrated Chronicle)

Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")

Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)

Conradus Celtis – Amores

Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae

Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)

Approximate year – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)

March – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)

Unknown dates

Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)

Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)

Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460?)

Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)

Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)

Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)

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